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What To Watch On Netflix Instant: Edition #26

Posted on August 1, 2015 by amodini

A Series Edition this time – here are 5 recent Netflix Series I enjoyed: [amazon_link id=”B00WK6ZE26″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Witnesses (“Les témoins”, France, 2014) This is a very atmospheric mystery-thriller series with two detectives in a small, sleepy, coastal French … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Drishyam (31st July 2015)

Posted on July 25, 2015 by amodini

Ajay Devgan, Tabu and Rajat Kapoor. Shows promise.

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Movie Review : Bombay Velvet (2015)

Posted on May 18, 2015 by amodini

Rating : 3.5/5 Genre : Romantic Thriller Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 30 minutes Director : Anurag Kashyap Cast : Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Kaykay Menon, Karan Johar, Satyadeep Misra, Siddharata Basu, Manish Chaudhary, Vivaan Shah Kidwise … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Bombay Velvet (May 15th 2015)

Posted on May 8, 2015 by amodini

Here it comes! I can barely wait.

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Movie Review : Ugly (2014)

Posted on March 9, 2015 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B00TJG07CW” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Rating : Good (4/5) Genre : Thriller Year : 2014 Running time : 2 hours 8 minutes Director : Anurag Kashyap Cast : Ronit Roy, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Surveen Chawla, Rahul Bhat, Vineet Singh, Girish Kulkarni … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : NH10 (releases 13th March 2015)

Posted on March 2, 2015 by amodini

Watching this trailer makes my hair stand on end. And that’s not the chief reason I want to watch NH10 – it’s director Navdeep Singh, who in 2007, gave us the exceptional “Manorama 6 feet Under”. This film stars Anushka Sharma … Continue reading →

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Movie Review : Badlapur (2015)

Posted on February 25, 2015 by amodini

Rating : Good (3.8/5) Genre : Thriller Year : 2015 Running time : 2 hours 14 minutes Director : Sriram Raghavan Cast : Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Kumud Mishra, Vinay Pathak, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte, Divya Dutta [amazon_link … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Detective Byomkesh Bakshi (3rd April 2015)

Posted on January 23, 2015 by amodini

I’m really looking forward to Byomkesh Bakshi. For starters, it’s a detective film, which we have precious few of (there was Manorama Six Feet Under, but it’s been a few years), and then it is directed by Dibakar Banerjee. And … Continue reading →

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What To Watch On Netflix Instant – Edition #22

Posted on December 19, 2014 by amodini

[amazon_link id=”B00IIUATDM” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]- The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) Based (loosely, I assume) on Wall Street conman Jordan Belfort, this is a 3 hour long ride, featuring lots of over-the-top sexual situations and Leonardo DiCaprio in his … Continue reading →

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Movie Preview : Kill Dil (November 14th, 2014)

Posted on October 24, 2014 by amodini

Hold your horses people – this is not a sequel to Kill Bill :-). This is a very inventively named movie starring Ranveer singh, Parineeti Chopra, Govinda and Ali Zafar. The only saving grace here appears to be director Shaad Ali, … Continue reading →

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